Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Rough Start: When Was The Last Time You Thought About A Dodge Ramcharger?
The Ford Bronco is coming back. The Chevrolet Blazer’s descendant, the Tahoe, is probably the most popular family ride in my neck of the woods. The Ramcharger has been dead and gone since 1993,...
Rough Start: This 1979 Buick Regal Is Ready To Hit The Track!
Sorry if you saw Buick Regal and were hoping for an all-black turbo monster waiting for a bargain budget price. Outside of searching Copart for wrecks, I’ve only seen one Grand National that...
Rough Start: Doubt It Sucks Nitro, But This 1987 Lincoln Mark VII Mad Max Clone Could Be The Duck’s Guts!
I understand the appeal of wanting to build your own V8 Interceptor. Cloning a movie car that you love is understandable, but locating a suitable Aussie Falcon to start with is like finding...
Rough Start: The Two-For-One Sale! A 1977 Camaro and a 1953 Bel Air Within Budget!
Whoa. I’m having flashbacks to my first car, and I’m not kidding in the least. Washington State tags, check. Manual-trans shovelnose second-generation Camaro, check. That funky shade of...
They Don’t Come Cleaner: This 1979 Ford F-250 Is A Truck Fan’s Dream Rig!
I’m sure most of you remember a time when a truck was popular based upon it’s work merits and not how many cows were sacrificed to line the interior surfaces. I certainly do, and after a...
Why Buy New? This 1977 Ford Bronco Has Been Lengthened And Customized To Be The Perfect Family SUV!
Last we heard, Ford is still bringing out a new Bronco. We know that developers are trying to line up the new SUV to compete with the Jeep Wrangler, but that they don’t want the Bronco to be a...
Rough Start: The Optimistic Seller’s 1980 Chevrolet Monza Is Still A Good Score!
“Class 3 survivor collector car! 2+2 model designed to be modified to a hot rod!” Well, while we are pretty sure GM didn’t have hot rodding on the brain when they designed the...
Rough Start: Going For The Unbeaten Path In A Mercury Montego
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -“The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost. The road not taken. The direction not...
The Hidden Fox: This 1990 Ford Mustang 7-Up Special Was Hidden Where I Grew Up As A Kid!
Port Orchard, Washington is a sleepy little village on the Sinclair Inlet of Puget Sound. Growing up, it was where I “went to town”…I lived in Olalla, which is at least ten miles...
Rough Start: Can You Really Go Wrong With A Rough But Running X-body? This Pontiac Ventura Looks Like A Score!
I don’t know what it is about a primer gray GM X-body that makes me feel good. Maybe it’s fond memories of my mother’s Oldsmobile Omega, or maybe it’s because they make for...
The “WTF?” Files: Have You Heard Of A VW Phoenix? Neither Have We…Check Out This Fiberglass Freak!
The old-school, air cooled Volkswagens lend themselves to many different interpretations. The Beetle and Bus are classics, but not everybody wanted to be seen in a German take on an...
From The Weird Engine Swap Files: A Mazda RX8 With A V8, But Not The One You Think!
Some say there are two types of car guys: ones who like rotary engines, and ones who want to swap piston engines in the place of rotary engines. The fact of the matter is, rotary engines are cool,...
Rough Start: A Rally Sport Camaro For A Reasonable Price
I tend to be quick to write-off rubber-nosed second gen Chevrolet Camaros. Blame it on a few bad examples in my past, blame it on my personal tastes, but for the most part, they don’t do it for...
Rough Start: Another Hot-Rodded 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC, Complete With A Manual Swap!
Lincoln has been busy re-inventing themselves as an ultra-luxury, old school American auto company that builds cars you’d rather ride in than drive. Compared to where they were a year or two...